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The Role of Non-Governmental Organization
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The Role of Non-Governmental Organization. The last ten years have seen an extraordinary rise in the level of international activities undertaken by international non-governmental actors (NGOs). Described as "transnational advocacy networks" (TANs), or " social movements" (TSMs), these new organizational forms bring together a wide array of nongovernmental organizations, citizens associations, and trade unions, in forms of activism that target global level institutions and issues. They frequently represent the prototypical "global civil society," with the power to influence, and perhaps democratize the structure of world politics, both through their increasing influence within existing international institutions, and through their capacity to use this influence to leverage change in individual nation states. 1This paper attempts to discuss the role of non-governmental organizations in dealing with human rights violations by looking at the range of their work, thier activities and problems they are facing. More than thirty thousand NGOs worldwide tackle many global problems,...
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